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Their new CTO did an AMA on reddit recently. https://www.reddit.com/r/Aeternity/comments/6vxiei/ama_session_with_joel_reymont_cto_of_%C3%A6ternity/ https://www.

Their new CTO did an AMA on reddit recently. https://www.reddit.com/r/Aeternity/comments/6vxiei/ama_session_with_joel_reymont_cto_of_%C3%A6ternity/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Aeternity/comments/6vxiei/ama_sessi... The relevant parts: > There are no zero days. And we are not using any of Zack’s code in the new repo. Take a look at our Github. Zack’s leaving has zero effect on our technology and we are not using any of his code. > We have been working alongside Zack for quite some time now and understand the code. We felt that this is the right time to dump some accumulated and unwanted technical baggage. We are starting with a clean source code repository and will be bringing in pieces of code from the old repo as needed.

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Lazare 9y ago
Fascinating. That seems to confirm a lot of Zack's claims (not the physical assault parts, of course). Highly unusual to start over with an empty repo when your lead developer quits. Which makes me suspect that the answer to the asked-but-unanswered question: > Is this down to IP issues / lack of any contracts or legal agreements? Is "yes".
- mickronome 9y ago
  Sure sounds like it. I've been through a somewhat similar (but less jarring) situation, mine was a customer silently started hiring people to clone a kind of trading system they licensed from us at the time, but the strangeness tastes the same way. A bit of story, might entertain someone: It started with them started asking somw weird questions, and generally behaving odd in our meetings about fixes and new features. Somehow, I came to the conclusion they had to be working on a clone, which I told everyone on the team. They were quite surprised by that, especially as I wasn't myself present at the strangest meeting. Que a year or so later, when my boss walked in. One sentence that said it all: - How the hell did you know ? Turned out I was right. But truth to be told, I couldn't answer his questions. It was simply the only possible reason I could imagine.

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Lazare 9y ago

Fascinating. That seems to confirm a lot of Zack's claims (not the physical assault parts, of course). Highly unusual to start over with an empty repo when your lead developer quits. Which makes me suspect that the answer to the asked-but-unanswered question: > Is this down to IP issues / lack of any contracts or legal agreements? Is "yes".

mickronome 9y ago
Sure sounds like it. I've been through a somewhat similar (but less jarring) situation, mine was a customer silently started hiring people to clone a kind of trading system they licensed from us at the time, but the strangeness tastes the same way. A bit of story, might entertain someone: It started with them started asking somw weird questions, and generally behaving odd in our meetings about fixes and new features. Somehow, I came to the conclusion they had to be working on a clone, which I told everyone on the team. They were quite surprised by that, especially as I wasn't myself present at the strangest meeting. Que a year or so later, when my boss walked in. One sentence that said it all: - How the hell did you know ? Turned out I was right. But truth to be told, I couldn't answer his questions. It was simply the only possible reason I could imagine.